When the football schedule was released in April, it seemed apparent the four-game stretch that ends Saturday would make or break UNLV’s season. It’s a span of games that only has grown in importance with each of the three Rebels victories.
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A few weeks ago, I was hiding out at the Central Michigan-UNLV football game at Sam Boyd Stadium — I figured that would be the last place the authorities would look — when Mark Wallington, the Rebels’ football information guy, said the UNLV marching band had formed a giant mustache down on the playing field.
Opponents mostly have chosen to play UNLV wide receiver Devante Davis straight up, and he has made them pay. But don’t necessarily look for a change in strategy.
UNLV and Kansas have agreed to play a home-and-home series in men’s basketball starting in the 2014-15 season.
First-year defensive coordinator Tim Hauck said before the season that UNLV would take chances on that side of the football. He has backed up his words with actions.
UNLV plans a campaign to raise more than $500 million to help finance Southern Nevada’s first medical school, a major on-campus football stadium/entertainment center and other major campus improvements, the university’s president said Wednesday.
When I heard UNLV had tacked on another year to Tina Kunzer-Murphy’s contract as UNLV’s interim athletic director, my first thought was good for her. My second thought was if this gets back to Pat Dye, he’s probably not going to like it.
UNLV expects a crowd in the range of 25,000 Saturday when the Rebels host Hawaii, and anything short of it would disappoint given a few factors: UNLV will try to win a fourth straight regular-season game for the first time since 1984, and Hawaii’s healthy and passionate fan base wants nothing more than to trample such thoughts.
If any football team was to prevent Boise State from winning the Mountain Division, it figured to be Utah State. But probably not anymore.
UNLV center Khem Birch was voted to the preseason all-Mountain West first team, and the Rebels were picked to finish in a second-place tie with Boise State, according to a basketball media poll released by the league.